Job:36

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* Elihu also continued on and said : * Bear with me a little , and I will show you that there are yet words to speak on God ’s behalf . * I will take away my knowledge from afar ; I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker . * For truly my words are not false ; the One who is perfect in knowledge is with you . * Behold , the Mighty God is great , and refuses no one ; He is mighty in strength and heart . * He does not preserve the life of the wicked , but gives justice to the lowly . * He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous ; but they are on the throne with kings , for He has seated them forever , and they are exalted . * And if they are bound in fetters , caught in cords of affliction , * then He declares to them their work and their transgressions ; that they have acted proudly . * He also opens their ear to instruction , and commands that they turn back from iniquity . * If they obey and serve Him , they shall spend their days in good , and their years in pleasures . * But if they do not obey , they shall perish by the sword , and they shall die without knowledge . * But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath ; they do not cry for help when He has bound them . * Their soul dies in youth , and their life is among the male temple prostitutes . * He delivers the poor in their affliction , and opens their ears in oppression . * Indeed He would have brought you out of the mouth of distress , into a broad place where there is no constraint ; and what is set on your table would be full of fatness . * But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked ; judgment and justice take hold of you . * Beware wrath , lest He entice you away to a mocking slap ; for a large ransom will not turn it away . * He will not esteem your cry for help , riches , strength or might . * Do not long for the night , when people retreat into their place . * Take heed and do not turn away to iniquity , for you have chosen this rather than affliction . * Behold , the Mighty God is exalted by His power ; who teaches like Him ? * Who has assigned Him His way , or who has said , You have done wrong ? * Remember to magnify His work , of which men have sung . * Mankind has seen it ; man regards it from afar . * Behold , the Mighty God is great , and we cannot find Him out ; nor can the number of His years be searched out . * For He draws up drops of water , which distill as rain from the mist , * which the clouds drop down and pour abundantly upon man . * Also , can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds , the thunder from His canopy ? * Behold , He has spread his light upon it , and has covered the bottom of the sea . * For by these He judges the peoples ; He gives food in abundance . * He covers His hands with lightning , and gives charge to strike the mark . * His thunder declares it ; the cattle also go up .

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